Building a compost bin

As part of our School Garden Project we built a compost bin at Woodside Primary from recycled pallets. It is easy to do – just follow our step by step instructions!    

Planting 2/4/18

We’ve planted! We decided to go for it on Easter Monday and our container growing seed potatoes are in. As an experiment we have used a variety of containers this season including a cardboard box, bucket, specialist potato sack as well as the recycled…

Chitting 31/03/18

Here are our 11 varieties of seed potatoes chitting away on our windowsill. A lot of these are ready to get in the soil – ideally a minimum of 1cm of shoots should be coming out of the seeds as this will speed up…

All Gone 😊

We had a great day at Hazlehead Park on Saturday as part of the Green Family Fun Day event. We took the final 80kg of our seed potatoes with us, and here are the last family to get our potatoes for this season. Let’s…

Final Giveaways!

This Saturday sees us giving away the last of our FREE seed potatoes at two events, one in Aberdeen and one in Huntly. The first one is at Huntly as part of Deveron Projects Town is the Garden project. There are 8 varieties that…

More varieties for Seedy Sunday on March 18th

Three additional varieties that you can pick up for free at Seedy Sunday tomorrow at Aden Country Park, courtesy of a kind donation from Grampian Growers. Hermes is a round white skin and white flesh maincrop variety. Especially good for chips. Gemson is a…

We would like to thank the enormous generosity of Grampian Growers who donated an additional 175kg of seed potatoes to our project. In addition to more Cara, we now have three additional varieties to offer – Gemson, Nieta and Hermes. We will post some…

Our first give away event is on Tuesday!

One Seed Forward will be at the ACA Climate Café, Waterstone’s, Union Street, Aberdeen on Tuesday March 6th. Doors open at 6.30pm. We will be doing a talk on Community Growing in the North East, and have 100 bags of free seed potatoes to…

Our last two varieties for this season are Casablanca and Charlotte. Casablanca, shown on the left, is a first early that can be ready in less than 10 weeks from planting. Round with white flesh and skin, it has a range of cooking uses…

Where to collect your free seed potatoes

We are pleased to let you know where you can pick up your free seed potatoes for the coming growing season. Details of the varieties we have will be on our website oneseedforward.co.uk in the next few days. We hope to have a selection…